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You Are Wasting Your Adword Money

Written by Iszuddin Ismail

Topic: Business OpportunitiesPublished September 19, 2004
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Now this is a tip if you are using any kind of PPC (Adwords, Overture) to promote any product offered via ClickBank or any affiliate program that uses PayPal for payment processing. If you don't know this already, ClickBank and Paypal does not accept payment from everybody. They only accept payments from certain countries. And they can do that by identifying the IP address of the buyer. For example, me, living in Malaysia, I cannot buy anything that is offered through ClickBank. - I hate it! So the tip is this. Whenever you are promoting anything from ClickBank, use geographical targeting to reduce costs. Just select the countries that can buy the the product. For example, if you are promoting the Super Affiliate Handbook (by Rosalind Gardner) with Adwords, don't include Malaysia in the regional targeting. If I happens to come by your ad on Google, and I think that it's interesting, I click on it - that just costs you $0.20 (maybe). And when I get there, however interested I am with the product, I can't buy it. And maybe I could contact the merchant. And the merchant arranged an alternative payment via StormPay or MoneyBooker. But that will not be tracked with ClickBank ... you just did favour for your merchant. Well ... so generous of you.nn$0.20 just went down the toilet. And 50% commission lost. You can avoid that loss if you had not selected 'All Countries' in your geographical targeting. So what I am suggesting is for you to only show your ad to these few countries using the geographical targeting. Of course selecting the countries will takes time. But you could save a lot this way. To make it easier for you, I have a list of countries that ClickBank do accept payments from. And there's another list for Paypal as well.nnClickBank AndorranAnguillanAntigua & BarbudanArubanAscension IsnAustralianAustrianBahamasnBarbadosnBelgiumnBelizenBermudanBolivianBosnia & HerzegovinanBotswananBouvet IsnBrazilnCanadanCanadanCayman IsnChilenChinanColombianCosta RicanCyprusnCzech RepnDenmarknDominicanDominican RepnEcuadornEl SalvadornEquatorial GuineanEstonianFalkland IsnFaroe IsnFijinFinlandnFrancenGermanynGibraltarnGreat BritainnGreat BritainnGreecenGreenlandnGrenadanGuadeloupenGuatemalanHondurasnHong KongnHungarynIcelandnIndianIrelandnIsle Of MannItalynJamaicanJapannKenyanKiribatinKorea (South)nKuwaitnLatvianLiechtensteinnLithuanianLuxembourgnMaldivesnMaltanMartiniquenMauritiusnMexiconMonaconMontserratnNamibianNaurunNepalnNetherlandsnNetherlands AntillesnNew CaledonianNew Zealand nNicaraguanNiue IsnNorfolk IsnNorthern IrelandnNorwaynPalaunPanamanPapua New GuineanParaguaynPerunPitcairn IsnPolandnPortugalnReunion IsnSan MarinonSao Tome & PrincipenSeychellesnSingaporenSlovak RepnSlovenianSolomon IsnSouth AfricanSpainnSri LankanSt HelenanSt Kitts & NevisnSt LucianSt Pierre & MiquelonnSt Vincent & GrenadinesnSvalbard & Jan Mayen IsnSwedennSwitzerlandnTaiwannThailandnTogonTokelaunTonganTrinidad & TobagonTurks & Caicos IsnTuvalunUnited Kingdom (Gb)nUnited StatesnUruguaynVanuatunVenezuelanVirgin Is (Gb)nWallis & Futuna IsnnPayPal Anguilla nArgentina nAustralia nAustria nBelgium nBrazil nCanada nChile nChina nCosta Rica nDenmark nDominican Republic nEcuador nFinland nFrance nGermany nGreece nHong Kong nIceland nIndia nIreland nIsrael nItaly nJamaica nJapan nLuxembourg nMalaysia nMexico nMonaco nNetherlands nNew Zealand nNorway nPortugal nSingapore nSouth Korea nSpain nSweden nSwitzerland nTaiwan nThailand nTurkey nUnited Kingdom nUnited States nUruguay nVenezuelan

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Iszuddin Ismail is the 'Web Marketing Techie' at MoneyClicking. He publishes the MoneyClicking Newsletter where he shares tips and strategies to website building for internet marketing. Go over and subscribe to MoneyClicking Newsletter and receive a 50-page FREE EBOOK - Content-Site for Affiliate Income. http://www.moneyclicking.net

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